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...Boston Transcript sums up the matter in a single sentence: "The fetish of size, in education, is a fatal one." The purpose of a university is not alone to instruct and inspire the greatest number but also to make that instruction effective. The loss of the personal touch in education cannot be counterbalanced by the fact that a greater number of students are being taught...
...university with good traditions professors will be more ready to rely on the fairness and wisdom of a well-constituted board of trustees than on a board composed of "some of their own number, each affected almost unavoidably by a blas in favor of his particular subject." Boston Transcript...
...bold thing to do, to invade the British lion in his lair and meet him in one of his favorite specialties. Cornell lost, but its runners did better than could those of any other American university. And they very nearly won. Perhaps they will next time. --Boston Transcript...
Yesterday's Transcript had an editorial entitled "We Were Not There, Fortunately," that every Harvard man should read, whether pro or anti-league of nations. It points out with characteristic clearness who is bossing Europe and who would boss our country if we were to accept the league as it is. But more than that, it shows the absolute worthlessness of the promises of the very astute and supposedly sincere European statesmen. Mr. Lloyd George claims that England must manufacture poison gases "because the other nations are doing it." Where is the promise of disarmament...
Harvard's football "system" is thorough-going, but it would be well for some of these serious-faced young men to glance occasionally at the motto in the Bowl of the Stadium, which reads: "Dedicated to the joy of manly contest by the class of 1879." --Boston Transcript...